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A Special Appointment

Years ago I moved to Woodland Hills to take a job in a small hospital’s emergency department. No one wanted to work on Christmas Eve, so the shift（轮班）went to me. I kissed my family goodbye and went off to spend the night in the hospital. It was a thankless job.

At 9 pm, the ambulance brought in a man in his 60s who was having a heart attack. His face was pale, and he was frightened. The whole night I did my best to save his life. Before I left in the morning to spend Christmas with my family, I stopped by to see how he was doing. It was still tough, but he had survived the night and was sleeping.

The following year I got Christmas Eve duty again. At 9 pm sharp, the ward clerk told me there was a couple who wanted to speak with me. When I approached them, the man introduced himself as Mr. Lee and said, “You probably don’t remember me, but last Christmas Eve you saved my life. Thank you for the year you gave me.” He and his wife hugged me, handed me a small gift, and left.

The following year a new doctor had joined the group, but I wanted to see if Mr. And Mrs. Lee would return. This time, I volunteered for the shift. I kept an eye on the door. Once again, at exactly 9 pm, the Lees appeared, carrying a warmly wrapped bundle. It was their new grandchild.

Mr. Lee, his family and I spent 13 Christmas Eves together. In the later years the staff all knew about the story and would work to give me time with him in the break room, where we spent a half-hour each Christmas Eve.

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Last year I saw Mrs. Lee alone in the hospital with a gift for me.

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I carefully opened the package and found a crystal（水晶）bell inside with the word “Friendship” engraved（雕刻）on it.

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假如你是李华，你有一个外籍朋友Tom在湖北进行为期一年的交换生项目，因为湖北爆发新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)，Tom非常害怕，请你写一封信告诉他不要害怕。内容包括：

1. 不要慌张

2. 如何预防病毒 (勤洗手、多通风、出门戴口罩等)

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Researchers Are Racing to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine. Will It Help?

In the early days of January, as cases of a strange, pneumonia-like illness 1. (report) in China, researchers at the National Institutes of Health readied themselves to hunt 2. a vaccine to prevent the new disease.

Scientists in Australia are also working on vaccine candidates 3. (stop) the spread of the disease. Historically, vaccines have been one of the greatest public health 4.(tool) to prevent disease. But even as new technology, advancements in genomics(基因组学) and improved global coordination have allowed researchers to move at unprecedented speed, vaccine 5.(develop) remains an expensive and risky process. That’s 6. the vaccines must undergo extensive testing in animals and humans. In the best case, it takes at least a year — and most likely 7.(long) — for any vaccine to become available to the public.

With each new outbreak, scientists 8. (typical) have to start from scratch. After the SARS outbreak in 2003, 9. took researchers about 20 months from the release of the viral genome(基因组) to get a vaccine ready for human trials. By the time an epidemic 10. (cause) by the Zika virus occurred in 2015, researchers brought the timeline down to six months. Now, they hope the joint efforts will cut that time in half.

    When my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, went to live in the nurses station 5 years ago, I tried many things to keep her occupied. But it was only her word search book that kept her ______. Gradually, she began to think of it as her job and it kept her from ______.

Last night, when I came to her and said hello, she just looked at me ______. I introduced myself and told her I was her granddaughter. She seemed ______ about who I was. Obviously, she tried to find this word in her ______. So I helped her find it with fingers and ______ it for her with a pencil.

Later, I suggested we go outside, and she agreed. Then she was just staring at me as if trying to figure me out. I told her ______ I was her granddaughter. “Oh, okay” she said ______ but still didn’t really know. She just wanted to be kind.

And after we went ______ and I got her ready for and into bed, she told me to come ______ and we kissed and hugged real tight ______ we did for the first time. It wasn’t the first time though and sooner or later there would be a ______ time.

For now, I feel the blessing of the ______ although I have a sinking feeling that our days are numbered. It doesn’t ______ if the word “granddaughter” holds no ______ anymore — we are bound by love not labels.

1.A.time B.interest C.talent D.knowledge

2.A.trembling B.moving C.whispering D.wandering

3.A.curiously B.angrily C.naturally D.proudly

4.A.shocked B.amazed C.puzzled D.worried

5.A.dictionary B.mind C.room D.book

6.A.decorated B.marked C.associated D.tracked

7.A.patiently B.bravely C.regularly D.casually

8.A.joking B.laughing C.smiling D.crying

9.A.along B.ahead C.outside D.inside

10.A.slower B.closer C.straighter D.later

11.A.as if B.so that C.even if D.in case

12.A.perfect B.free C.final D.normal

13.A.event B.break C.gift D.moment

14.A.help B.matter C.work D.exist

15.A.meaning B.change C.design D.advantage

How to Form a Positive Reading Habit

Books are a source of joy, learning, insight and imagination. How we choose what to read says a lot about our preferences and passions. 1.

Give old favorites a re-read

There is a particular kind of pleasure that comes with easing open a well-worn book, flipping through pages you have thumbed before, maybe multiple times. 2. It can bring you back to the time in your life when you last met those characters. You’re left with a rich reflection on who you were, who you are  and where you turn for meaning and inspiration.

Learn something new

If you are a lover of novels, think about what your favorites have in common.3. That can send you down a glorious rabbit hole of non-fiction books that will brighten your understanding of times, places and people who already live in your imagination.

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Book clubs are positive on so many levels, not least of which is that they open your mind to books you might not otherwise have considered. If you don’t belong to one — and even if you do — try to think about your reading choices in a public way. Ask friends what they are reading and go with any recommendations that interest you.

Give yourself permission to move on

Sometimes you just can’t get through a book — and that’s okay. Just like living positively means acknowledging when it’s time to let go of something that isn’t serving you well, reading positively means giving yourself permission to close a book that isn’t keeping you interested or inspired. 5.. The positive pleasure of reading is indeed unending.

A.Get social

B.Set up a book club

C.There are unlimited choices to turn to instead, after all

D.Here are some tips for making reading a positive habit in your life

E.Reading books that you enjoy helps maintain your habit and become a life-long reader

F.Re-reading favorite books can do more than bring you back into beloved worlds and stories

G.A particular time in history, region of the world or type of character may become a new theme